Instead of dropping the enormous tank during ascent so it can be reused, the shuttle would hold on to it until reaching orbit.
It describes enormous historical shifts (the ascent of Martin Luther, the severing of England from the Roman Catholic church, the coming of the English Bible) and characters on a heroic scale (Saint Thomas More, Cardinal Wolsey).
The Sherpa ascents, displaying enormous stamina, were a salute to Sir Edmund, a straightforward beekeeper, who turned down an invitation to celebrate in London with Queen Elizabeth II to be here with friends in Nepal.
The opening Kyrie was expansive, the enormous Credo a series of ascents and descents culminating in the explosive "Et vitam venturi" fugue, the sinewy violin solo in the Sanctus emerging from dark, murky string depths which might have expressed the early stirrings of Chaos itself.
The crowds en route were again enormous, especially on the two major ascents, the Galibier, 18 kilometers at an average grade of 6.8percentt, and L'Alpe d'Huez, 21 hairpin turns over 13.8 kilometers with a grade of 7.9percentt.
There is enormous pathos in the way Thomas traces Swifty's ascent from protected to protector; as well as in Conner Chapman's scrappy, wounded defiance and in the exquisite insolence he shows to the two coppers who come round to give him a warning: he demands that they remove their shoes in the house.
The ascent of today's global scientific tongue is providing enormous opportunities for industrious native speakers of other languages to enter the world's scientific scene.
The experience of Germany in 1934, and of that unspeakable ascent to power, is one that we ought to put aside as too enormous, too different, too blasphemous to even mention in our own crisis.
Her ascent has been startling.
